Observations on Modern Systems of Fortification: Including that Proposed by M. Carnot, and a Comparison of the Polygonal with the Bastion System; to which are Added, Some Reflections on Intrenched Positions, and a Tract on the Naval, Littoral, and Internal Defence of EnglandJ. Murray, 1859 - 283 Seiten |
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... Effect of Vertical Fire on Carnot's System Letter from the Earl of Wellington to the Author , with instructions as to the Letter to be written in His Grace's name to the Guerilla Chiefs in the North of Spain , accompanying the ...
... Effect of Vertical Fire on Carnot's System Letter from the Earl of Wellington to the Author , with instructions as to the Letter to be written in His Grace's name to the Guerilla Chiefs in the North of Spain , accompanying the ...
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... effect this , it was necessary to assert the discovery of some fallacy in the idea of a balance which , since the days of Vauban , has been supposed to exist , with calculable certainty , in favour of attack ; but as such a revolution ...
... effect this , it was necessary to assert the discovery of some fallacy in the idea of a balance which , since the days of Vauban , has been supposed to exist , with calculable certainty , in favour of attack ; but as such a revolution ...
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... effect of this work operates against Great Britain ; and , consequently , that it is our policy to expose and correct that doctrine which tends to invigorate and pro- tract defence by delusive assurances of superiority , and to deter ...
... effect of this work operates against Great Britain ; and , consequently , that it is our policy to expose and correct that doctrine which tends to invigorate and pro- tract defence by delusive assurances of superiority , and to deter ...
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... effect of these balls by observing , that , of any number which fall in the trenches , the number that take effect will depend upon the proportion which the unoccupied part of the trench bears to the part which is covered by the men ...
... effect of these balls by observing , that , of any number which fall in the trenches , the number that take effect will depend upon the proportion which the unoccupied part of the trench bears to the part which is covered by the men ...
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... effect of this pluie de balles , " is founded upon the velocities which he supposes they will acquire in their accelerated descent from the vertex of a very elevated trajectory . This is manifestly the principle upon which he tries to ...
... effect of this pluie de balles , " is founded upon the velocities which he supposes they will acquire in their accelerated descent from the vertex of a very elevated trajectory . This is manifestly the principle upon which he tries to ...
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